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Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English
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Saji, Noburo, Akita, Kimi, Kantartzis, Katerina, Kita, Sotaro and Imai, Mutsumi (2019) Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English. PLoS One, 14 (7). e0218707. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218707 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218707
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a new quantitative approach to examine cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in languages. Unlike most previous studies taking a hypothesis-testing approach, we employed a data mining approach to uncover unknown sound-symbolic correspondences in the domain of locomotion, without limiting ourselves to pre-determined sound-meaning correspondences. In the experiment, we presented 70 locomotion videos to Japanese and English speakers and asked them to create a sound symbolically matching word for each action. Participants also rated each action on five meaning variables. Multivariate analyses revealed cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound-meaning correspondences within a single semantic domain. The present research also established that a substantial number of sound-symbolic links emerge from conventionalized form-meaning mappings in the native languages of the speakers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Psycholinguistics, Mimetic words, Sound symbolism | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||
Official Date: | 10 July 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||||
Number: | 7 | ||||||
Article Number: | e0218707 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0218707 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 June 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 June 2019 | ||||||
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